no-limit fungasmz [Lester]

playing no-limit hold em is like investing in volatile stock. you often take risks on hands that won't pan out 90% of the time, but when they do they hit it big. your best way to win money is to buck the trend against the right people in the right situations and play hands you know are underdogs but can absolutely hurt certain opponents. you also need to play your prospecting hands like they were pocket aces once in a while so that people don't catch on to what you're trying to do.

One of the tables tonight...

underdog25 raises to $3
bears826 calls $2
*** FLOP *** [Ah Th 3h]
underdog25 bets $5
bears826 calls $5
*** TURN *** [Ah Th 3h] [As]
underdog25 bets $14
bears826 raises to $102.65, and is all in
underdog25 calls $88.65
bears826 shows [6h Jh]
CrossFives: underdog25 shows [Qs Ad]
*** RIVER *** [Ah Th 3h As] [5h]
bears826 shows a flush, Ace high
underdog25 shows three of a kind, Aces
bears826 wins the pot ($219.30) with a flush, Ace high

On the very next hand...

Full Tilt Poker Game #845892977: Table Belmont (6 max) - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 5:38:30 ET - 2006/07/30
Seat 1: bears826 ($219.30)
Seat 2: enil29 ($76.25)
Seat 4: akdadof2 ($33.70)
Seat 5: underdog25 ($1.50)
bears826 posts the small blind of $0.50
enil29 posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to bears826 [Ac Th]
akdadof2 folds
underdog25: lucky #%&#@
akdadof2 stands up
underdog25: go !%@! yourself
underdog25 raises to $1.50, and is all in
bears826 calls $1
enil29 folds
underdog25 shows [Qc 8d]
bears826 shows [Ac Th]
*** FLOP *** [As 4h 6d]
*** TURN *** [As 4h 6d] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [As 4h 6d Jd] [Qh]
underdog25 shows a pair of Queens
bears826 shows a pair of Aces
bears826 wins the pot ($3.80) with a pair of Aces
underdog25 is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4 | Rake $0.20
Board: [As 4h 6d Jd Qh]
Seat 1: bears826 (small blind) showed [Ac Th] and won ($3.80) with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: enil29 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: akdadof2 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: underdog25 (button) showed [Qc 8d] and lost with a pair of Queens

Haters in Nature [Liam]

I decided I wanted to post something today, but I really haven't been big on the autobiographical haterade these days... I still need to post my illustrated / informational guide to hobo attacks.
Anyway I just had an idea we're gonna try out. Maybe it'll be hot. Maybe it'll flop. I'd like to turn away from my own life to the natural world, in a feature called:





TARANTULA HAWK WASP
Most Hateful Ownage
This bug has long been a subject of fascination, and I expect most of you are familiar with the basics of what these guys do...
Here's a new one, though: they get drunk. According to their Wikipedia article, "the consumption of fermented fruit sometimes intoxicates them to the point that flight becomes difficult." On a good night, they presumably follow this up with what any two inch hater insect would... going cruising for bigass hairy tarantulas more than twice their own size. Stinging them stupid and crippled, then DRAGGING their incapacitated asses home (see video). Stuffing them in a hole in the ground. Laying eggs on their heads like a Japanese porno for bugs. Letting T-Hawk larvae eat them alive, beginning with juices and moving slowly on to the vital organs. I believe Jaba the Hutt threatened Han Solo with something like this, but even that didn't have any humiliating egg bukkake component.





STRAY BABOONS
Best in Show
From the South African Sunday Times:
A BABOON that has bullied a community for months has struck again, sending a coffin flying as it went berserk at a funeral vigil while mourners scattered in terror.
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I'm so impressed I can't even come up with something to say.
That's SO hardcore. I mean what animal has the pure, hateful intuition to disrespect a FUNERAL with its bare-assed rampage? The level of creativity exhibited here far surpasses what some human haters could put together. A FUNERAL!

"The vigil had to be stopped because everyone was afraid that the baboon might strike again. I have never seen such a thing in my life."

LOL.
More:The baboon from Kliptown in Soweto is fast becoming legendary with a reign that has lasted for months. It got so bad that locals have imposed a curfew to protect themselves from the marauding beast. It has been blamed for at least six attacks on people recently, including dropping through the ceiling onto a sleeping 15-year-old.

DROPPING... THROUGH... THE CEILING.
It's like this is some kind of trained slapstick monkey, on the run with nothing to lose. You just aren't born knowing how to ambush a teenage kid through the roof. It takes meticulous planning and a trained eye for the absurd and hilarious.
Source

EXTRA! EXTRA! [Liam]

Homebodies

This is Alexander Gardens. It's named after a guy named Alexander. He was named after a guy named Alexander. [amy]

I'm in Moscow!

I'm pretty jet lagged still and don't have anything interesting to say. This is just for the novelty of being able to post something from another country. The keyboard has Russian letters on it too.

Um, there is a Chinese Restaraunt called "Peking Duck." It serves mostly sushi.
There is a club here called Ethnoland. I will post the flyer as soon as I am able. "Latinskii Night" is coming up!!

HOWDY [Liam]

Hi. Long time no blog.
Told myself I was going to slack extra big on brog2 until I finished my portfolio, and version 1 of LiamBoylan.com is up so... howdy.

Sent out my first real, complete job app this week.
I (pretty much for sure) nailed it, but I decided to pass. Would've been making graphics for a chain of adult bookstores... doing signs, posters and the print ads that run in newspapers. Apparently quite a few newspapers. 40ish. Good stuff. They seemed like a really cool bunch, but I was concerned about the applicability of porn ads (even really good porn ads, directed at a "less shady" sector of adult entertainment) on a serious graphic design resume. Especially for an entire year-long run like they were looking for. If it didn't fly as legit with my next employer, there would be a pretty sizeable gap there from 2006-2007.
Anyway, I was feeling pretty good about casting my line out there on craigslist again... then, during the phone call when I told them I was passing, I asked how the field had looked. Apparently they got about 200 applicants. Jesus, Mary and Buddha. Maybe I was luckier this time than I realized.
Too late now, anyway. Onward and upward!

...back to Fremont!

In other news, I've decided that the first Gorillaz album is waaay better than Demon Days. More soon.

shameless plug [amy]

My little cousin has a tshirt company!!
Teehee :)

(I might get the Union City one.)


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In other news, the Daily Show is responsible for low voter turnout. It causes young viewers to become cynical about the political process, so cynical in fact that they just DON'T VOTE. Fake news will do that to you.

We need to do something about Jon Stewart and his anti-voting death rays. A constitutional amendment ought to do the trick.